Cajon Pass on a calm spring morning. Over 20,000 spitting and snarling horsepower grind inexorably upgrade against a backdrop of Sierra rising to a height of over 10,000 feet. This is some place!

After lifting the Woodstock multi's at Cami, OSR #383 notches up, eastbound out of Ingersoll.

A former Soo Line GP38-2 and a new ECO lead a transfer to Superior with the grain elevators of Duluth dominating the landscape.

What became America's sweetheart as a holdout from joining Amtrak, D&RGW's westbound "Rio Grande Zephyr" was just doing its thing delighting passengers in remote and rugged Gore Canyon, Colo. on ... (more)

Blame the broom operator! Blame Me! I must admit with little shame I am behind dirtying up the locomotives! CN 8959, CN 2108, GTW 5945 get a little dirtier after kicking up dust from fresh ballast... (more)

A patched Southern Pacific unit leads a loaded coal train through the Feather River Canyon as it crosses under the famous Pulga bridge.

On a warm afternoon a lengthy 'stacker' descends Cajon's original 3% grade behind a DASH-9 and one of its most recent descendants. Yet another great place to enjoy a Bud Light with my Dad while w... (more)

Light engine MRF departs Two Harbors.

While NS 20K goes about dropping off a set of cars into the River Yard, the PBNE 19 leads two other switchers as it brings a cut of double stacks through the car filled yard and past the famous Be... (more)

Red car, red locomotive, who will win the race to the crossing? RRL Grindrod's RB201 (ex- SAR class 31-009) approaches the Jan Hofmeyer Road crossing in Welkom, while working empty hoppers from th... (more)

The sun broke in time to make this shot.

After waiting for Amtrak to get through town, UP's Sedalia Sub local goes back to work switching industries in the Sub's namesake town. You can see that UP 693 is right at home on this former MP l... (more)

Beyond electrified territory, a GE U34CH zips New Jersey Dept. of Transportation commuter Train 1055 past Denville Tower, N.J., in the evening hours of April 15, 1994. The 3430-h.p. GE 4179 was ... (more)

Perched near the Continental Divide, the view is one of my favorite in Montana. You can watch for 45 minutes as trains crawl out of Austin, scream thru Weed, and lastly thunder over Skyline as tra... (more)

After picking up 20 cars at Serena, the Illinois Railway's train for the BNSF at Eola storms out of town on this former CB&Q branch to Ottawa, Illinois.